http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/a-portable-router-that-conceals-your-internet-traffic/
By Sean Gallagher
Ars Techica
Aug 13 2014
The news over the past few years has been spattered with cases of Internet
anonymity being stripped away, despite (or because) of the use of privacy
tools. Tor, the anonymizing “darknet” service, has especially been in the
crosshairs—and even some of its most paranoid users have made a
significant operational security (OPSEC) faux pas or two. Hector “Sabu”
Monsegur, for example, forgot to turn Tor on just once before using IRC,
and that was all it took to de-anonymize him. (It also didn’t help that he
used a stolen credit card to buy car parts sent to his home address.)
If hard-core hacktivists trip up on OPSEC, how are the rest of us supposed
to keep ourselves hidden from prying eyes? At Def Con, Ryan Lackey of
CloudFlare and Marc Rogers of Lookout took to the stage (short their
collaborator, the security researcher known as “the grugq,” who could not
attend due to unspecified travel difficulties) to discuss common OPSEC
fails and ways to avoid them. They also discussed their collaboration on a
set of tools that promises to make OPSEC easy—or at least easier—for
everyone.
Called Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty (PORTAL), the project is a
pre-built software image for an inexpensive pocket-sized “travel router”
to automatically protect its owner’s Internet traffic. Portal provides
always-on Tor routing, as well as “pluggable” transports for Tor that can
hide the service’s traffic signature from some deep packet inspection
systems.
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